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St. Marc. Hayti [[Haiti]] [[strikethrough]] carded[[/strikethrough]]
Mar 23rd 1920

Dear Richmond

Yours of Mar. 10th was awaiting our return from Gonave Island yesterday. Glad to hear the films were sent down. They are doubtless awaiting our return to Port au Prince. It is not easy to develop photos here. In Gonave Island fresh water was very scarce & far away. & local photographers seem nonexistent here, though plentiful in San Domingo. I have not added much to the avifauna of Gonave Island. [shot a female yellow billed woodpecker. Beastly fat, & badly shot it made a poor specimen. It was 213mm long. & has a large black spot on breast. No others seen or heard.] Apparently Gonave was once covered with magnificent forest. Now totally destroyed in the fertile uplands - which are now open grass land. A small scrap of "forest" exists at Grand Source, or rather did, for it was mostly cut down in last few weeks.

[The Haytian clapper rail has materialized, & [the yellow warbler is plentiful] - did not see a single Calyptophilus, & [no parrots seen -]  Leonard has done pretty well on the plants.

Saw nothing of Dulus michalis[[?]]. Scarcely any palms are left. Maybe bird has ceased to exist. But did not [[strikethrough]] all all[[?]] [[/strikethrough]] see anything like all the island. It is a big place.

Transcription Notes:
Gonave island is now spelled Gonâve Calyptophilus - found in Wikipedia Dulus michalis (nuchalis?) - could not find Dulus dominicus is the only species of the Dulus genus